Essays about: "Coloniality of power"

Showing result 21 - 22 of 22 essays containing the words Coloniality of power.

  1. 21. A French School in Tunisia: teaching sustainability and reproducing socio-ecological hierarchy in Tunisia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Christine Brignone; [2011]
    Keywords : Consumption; Development; Cultural Hegemony; Sustainability; Coloniality of power.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The explicit sustainability education these students receive gives them narrowly circumscribed ideas about sustainability as recycling and solar panels. At the same time school experience has the implicit lessons about sustaining one’s social position through consumption and display of imported fashion and products associated with France/the west, practices with contradictory implications for sustainability. READ MORE

  3. 22. Rethinking Gender from the south

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

    Author : Lelya Troncoso; [2010]
    Keywords : Gender; coloniality; coloniality of power; Latin America; Chile; intersectionality; capitalism.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is a theoretical exploration of “southern theorists”, with special focus on their contribution to re-thinking, challenging and expanding western conceptualizations of gender. The aim is to identify scholarship that promotes decolonizing and liberatory ways of constructing gender. READ MORE